iRobot, the maker of the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this week after years of mounting financial struggles and a failed $1.4 billion acquisition deal with Amazon.The 35-year-old company once reigned supreme in the world of robotic vacuums, but its dominance waned amid rising competition from lower-cost rivals and weakening consumer demand. Here's a look back at how this once mighty, pioneering robotics company arrived at this moment. iRobot was founded by MIT ...

Netflix just made its second big podcast move, announcing a deal with iHeartMedia to exclusively host the video versions of more than a dozen of its shows. Those shows include "The Breakfast Club," cohosted by popular radio personality Charlamagne tha God; true crime show "My Favorite Murder"; and "Dear Chelsea" with Chelsea Handler.Netflix said the shows will launch on its platform in early 2026 in the US, with other markets to follow. Netflix stressed the variety of the shows available through the deal. ...

If you miss the days of gathering around the TV surfing channels, you're in luck. Instagram launched Instagram for TV on Tuesday, bringing its popular Reels content to the big screen via Amazon Fire TV devices.The app, which is first being rolled out in the US, groups Reels into channels, including trending comedy, sports, or hidden travel gems. Users can choose a channel and start watching, with the Reels playing automatically. Instagram for TV is part of the platform's ongoing effort to adapt to the way ...

When it comes to regrets, Michael Burry has a few. The investor of "The Big Short" fame, who bet on GameStop years before it became a meme, explained why he sold the stock before it skyrocketed in a Substack post on Monday night.Burry got in earlyBurry, who recently pivoted from hedge fund manager to online writer, first invested in GameStop in the summer of 2018. The video-game retailer's stock looked undervalued to him, and he saw an array of catalysts that could send it higher, he wrote. They included ...

福特公司战略转向 - 公司宣布将缩减电动汽车业务 相关调整将导致195亿美元成本[1] - 公司取消部分大型电动汽车车型计划 并将F-150 Lightning电动皮卡改为配备额外汽油发电机的“增程”电动汽车[11] - 公司将重新利用其位于肯塔基州的电动汽车电池工厂 转为生产为数据中心和能源基础设施供电的电池[1] - 公司将投资20亿美元以扩大新的能源存储业务规模 该业务将利用当前未充分利用的电动汽车电池产能[2] - 公司计划到2027年底部署至少20吉瓦时的能源存储系统 其电量大约相当于2000个美国家庭一年的用电量[2] - 公司位于肯塔基州格伦代尔的工厂将生产用于数据中心行业的商业电池 另一家位于密歇根州的电池工厂将生产用于住宅用途的小型电池单元[8] 行业趋势与市场动态 - 为构建更强大AI模型的竞赛正在推动全美数据中心建设热潮 给电网带来压力[2] - 联邦估计数据显示 未来三年数据中心电力需求预计将增长高达三倍[6] - 科技巨头如Meta、微软和OpenAI正投入数百亿美元建设AI基础设施[6] - 电动汽车市场需求在最近几个月急剧下降 此前买家在9月7500美元联邦税收抵免结束前抢购电动汽车[7] - 汽车制造商正在减少投资并押注混合动力汽车 为电动汽车市场的寒冬做准备[7] - 福特CEO表示 美国电动汽车市场占比从12%降至仅5% 是公司做出战略调整的主要决定因素[12] 竞争对手动向 - 竞争对手特斯拉运营着一个蓬勃发展的能源存储业务 去年通过销售用于支持电网和家庭供电的电池获得了超过100亿美元收入[9] - 特斯拉的Megapack商用电池已被马斯克的初创公司xAI用于其位于田纳西州孟菲斯的大型“Colossus”超级计算机[10] - 据报道 该AI初创公司在5月部署了168个Megapack以帮助稳定该站点的电力供应 该站点是世界上最大的数据中心之一[10]

公司战略：打造“AI优先”工作场所 - 公司核心优先事项是“让人工智能成为我们工作的核心” 旨在将人工智能工具整合到员工工作的方方面面 [1][2] - 公司为员工提供了一套经过改进的人工智能工具套件 并确认其重点是使用人工智能帮助员工处理日常工作 [4] - 公司通过游戏化（如“Level Up”内部游戏）和将人工智能使用成效与绩效评估挂钩（2026年起）来鼓励员工采用和试验人工智能 [10] 工具开放与集成策略 - 公司自2024年6月起向员工广泛开放竞争对手的人工智能模型 包括谷歌和OpenAI的产品 [1][5] - 公司内部生产力套件已迁移至谷歌Workspace（包括Chat、Gmail、Docs和Drive） 以解锁人工智能驱动功能并更好地与扩展的工具集集成 [8] - 在工程侧 公司扩大了对智能体编码系统的访问 增加了谷歌Gemini 3 Pro 并探索与OpenAI Codex CLI等工具的新集成 战略核心是提高生产力和加速开发 [9] 可用人工智能工具详情 - 截至2024年11月 所有员工均可访问谷歌的Gemini 3 Pro和OpenAI的ChatGPT-5 [3] - 员工可访问的工具列表包括：Agentic Auto（顶级智能体）、Advanced Auto（实验性复杂任务处理）、iLlama（针对内部问题优化的快速Llama 3.1模型）、Llama 4 Maverick、GPT-4.1、Gemini 3 Pro以及编码助手Devmate等 [4] - 公司内部编码工具Devmate使用了Anthropic的Claude模型 [5] - 公司还向员工提供了Midjourney的AI图像生成工具 用于加速设计工作和创意原型制作 [7] 内部人工智能开发与投资 - 公司已在面向消费者的自有人工智能模型上投资了数百亿美元（tens of billions） [6] - 员工可以访问基于其Llama模型构建的内部人工智能助手Metamate [6] - 公司鼓励员工同时使用自有模型（采用“Llama”命名规范）和其他公司的产品 [2]

The "Google Guys" are now richer than Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Oracle's Larry Ellison, and Meta's Mark Zuckerberg. Alphabet's cofounders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, are worth $265 billion and $246 billion each as of Monday's close, per the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. They're the second- and third-richest people on the planet, behind only Elon Musk and his $638 billion net worth.Page and Brin have added $97 billion and $88 billion to their respective fortunes since the start of January, for a joint wealth ga ...

US tech companies are hoping soon to gain clearance for flying taxis that make short commercial hops like Manhattan to LaGuardia Airport. Eyeing defense dollars, they're also equipping air taxies for the battlefield. Air taxis have wings and propellers, allowing them to take off and land like a helicopter and fly like an airplane. You can't yet hail a flying taxi anywhere in the US, though those futuristic flights could be coming in the next couple of years.Pentagon leaders have shifted their focus to the ...

文章核心观点 - 一位拥有超过15年AI能力构建与部署经验的前科技公司高管指出，当前存在人类对AI产生“共生依赖”的真实风险，其核心主张是应利用AI来增强而非取代劳动力，并强调在广泛使用AI的同时，必须保持批判性思维，避免“智力萎缩”[1][2][3] AI在职场中的应用与风险 - 专家认为AI应用于职场的正确方式是放大劳动力，而非消除岗位，企业应学习如何为未来准备其员工队伍[3] - 个人每日使用6到8个AI工具，主要用于数据处理，以便专注于思考模式与洞察，但强调工具应用应加速工作，而非替代思考[8][9] - 在沟通领域，专家坚持不使用AI撰写电子邮件、主题演讲或进行个人互动，以确保沟通的真诚、表达准确且意图被正确感知[10] “智力萎缩”与批判性思维的重要性 - “智力萎缩”被定义为因将思考外包给技术而导致批判性思考认知能力的丧失，类似于肌肉因不使用而萎缩[7] - 需警惕生成式AI使个人思维变得“通用化”，因为所有人都在使用类似ChatGPT的工具，保持优势的关键在于运用认知能力[7] - 社会当前重视便利胜过竞争，速度胜过实质，但应对信息过载的关键是“放慢速度”，并培养从噪音中识别信号的“辨别力肌肉”[12][13] AI使用的实践准则与案例警示 - 全球有很大比例的内容已是AI生成，且这些内容正被用于重新训练AI自身，可能导致收益递减[13] - 解决问题、辨别、验证和核实AI回应的能力将变得至关重要，应将AI输出视为初稿，而非直接复制粘贴，因其常不准确[14] - 一个案例显示，初级数据科学家因完全采信ChatGPT，其交付成果与高级科学家相同但耗时少一半，却绕过了研究与验证过程，因此团队被要求只能使用AI辅助和加速研究，而非替代工作[15][16] - 管理者明确表示，雇佣员工是支付其大脑与独特性，而非复制粘贴，因为企业级OpenAI API许可的成本远低于员工薪资[16] - 过度依赖AI而放弃自身解决问题和批判性思考，个人可能在几年内被淘汰[16]

Ford is switching gears, away from some electric vehicles. In a news release on Monday, the company announced several changes to its EV production, saying it is deprioritizing fully electric large vehicles, which were not making it money."Ford no longer plans to produce select larger electric vehicles where the business case has eroded due to lower-than-expected demand, high costs and regulatory changes," Ford said in the release. The company also plans to stop the production of electric commercial vans i ...